November 2-3, 2016

Knoxville, Tennessee, USA

Crowne Plaza Knoxville

Ian Wright

Founder & CEO
Wrightspeed

With over 20 years of high-tech engineering and management experience, Wright has ushered in an era of electric transportation. As founder of Wrightspeed, Co-founder of Tesla Motors and creator of the X1- the fastest street legal electric vehicle in the world, Ian has continued to fuse his passion for racing with his technical curiosity. At Wrightspeed, Ian has successfully built a company that uniquely meets ever-increasing market demands.

His senior executive experience at Tesla Motors, Altamar Networks, Cisco, and NET has enabled him to shape a first-class team at Wrightspeed, patent three products in the last few years, steadily secure funding to scale production, and land a number of early customers including FedEx. Through Ian's leadership, Wrightspeed is expanding clean transportation opportunities across the globe. Wrightspeed's electric powertrains are the next step in the evolution of vehicle propulsion.